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Month: May 2014

Before going veg, I never liked the pineapple & ham combo. I didn’t like ham and I actually wasn’t a fan of pineapple either. So obviously I didn’t like the two together. bad + bad does not = good. Terry and I recently ordered pizza though and he tried a veggie pineapple & ham and it was good! Man oh man. I couldn’t quite get it out of my head. I like recreating things at home, but this took a completely different spin.

Guess what the secret ingredient is????? Guess!!! I mentioned it recently.

Put the tempeh in shallow dish. Combine the marinade ingredients in a small bowl & whisk until combined. Pour the marinade over the tempeh and allow it to soak in the flavours, covered in the fridge, for 2-8 hours (the longer you leave it, the stronger the marinade will be).

Before you start to stirfry the veggies, heat a bit of coconut oil on the stove in a wok and cook the tempeh for 7-10 minutes until it’s browning up (you can chop the veggies while the tempeh is cooking).

Heat the coconut oil in a wok on the stove and add the ginger & carrots and sautée for 5 minutes until the carrot becomes slightly tender. Add the zucchini & stirfry another few minutes. Add the remaining ingredients, including the marinated & cooked tempeh and cook until heated through. You can serve this on top of rice, or just add your favourite grain (we enjoyed some cooked quinoa stirred right in). Throw some cashew pieces on top and maybe a few chili flakes and polish your bowl off =)

catch up on and stay on top of reading all of your blogs (I’m still only up to March 26th :/)

find more ways to be happy (blog post coming up about this)

I’m almost ready to take the dance routine goal out, but I’m still finding myself leaving it until the very last minute and I know the only reason I get to it sometimes is because I have this goal written down, so up it stays for now. I got all of my spring cleaning done. *phew* It was tough work, but the place looks great and we got rid of a bunch of things we no longer use. Don’t you love that purge feeling? I finally got caught up reading blogs and I would like to continue to stay on top of it. Although I did find more ways to be happy, I have yet to do the blogpost about it that I wanted to – stay tuned for this!

So at the start of the month I was trying to reduce my Whole Foods bill and this was not happening. If anything, I think it actually increased! But by the end of the month I had not only decreased it to where it was before, but down even lower. I gave this a yellow as it still needs some work. This will require more careful planning on my part so I only buy things I need that week. And I did start using my new camera for blog pics. But I only managed to get one recipe up with it. I have a couple of others waiting, but I don’t know how to get the pictures from the camera to my computer… don’t laugh – I’m technologically impaired haha ;p My hubby will have to help me with that.

An ongoing goal is to work on art as it makes me happy – check it out:

Sunny likes helping

May Goals:

1 new dance routine

Update my CanFit certification (I’m a group fitness instructor and need to take a course to renew my expiring certification… it’s not fun and I *always* put it off until the very last minute)

Take an art class (I want to go from dabbling to making more of a fun hobby)

Try meditating (I tried a couple of times last month, I would really like to do this twice a week this month, eventually a bit every day)

Work more at taking blogpics with my camera (and eventually take better pics of food haha ;p)

Keep finding more ways to be happy

Alright – that’s enough for now. I hope you all have a fantabulous week. I’ll see you all back here on Wednesday with a yummy recipe.

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I'm Kimmy, a holistic nutritionist on the path to healthy living and loving myself. I want to share my passion for kale and chocolate with you. I focus on allergy-friendly recipes and you will find some appetizing healthy eats as well as some delicious indulgences here. ♥